Monte Carlo simulations of the growth and decay of Quasi-ballistic photon fractions with depth in an isotropic medium

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5695, Issue , 2005, Pages 136-147

  Pfeiffer, Nick ^a   Chapman, Glenn H ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collimating optics; Light scattering; Monte Carlo; Optical tomography; Quasi ballistic; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

COLLIMATING OPTICS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; QUASI-BALLISTIC; TISSUE OPTICS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 23244466057     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.590512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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